This might be the first time ever that I feel like punching several posters from one story in the face until they relax a little. Yeah Verizon should've allowed the name, but everyone's making it sound like it's a huge fucking tragedy. Has anyone compared this to the holocaust yet?
People are denied the use of their real names in email addresses all the time. If I were to try to register an email with any of the major providers, I would be denied the use of my real first and last names because they use the cyrillic alphabet. I could use some latin approximation which would sound similar enough or just use something else, but that would be an insult to my ancestors who were massacred by the Turks and fought bravely against the Germans. Still, I get over myself and use a latin approximation, but then it turns out that the address is already in use! Those assholes, what am I going to do now!?! I have dishonored my family by not using an email address with my full real names and now I will have to die. So long.
Actually it's probably the best way that you could help out. If enough people bough the currency then the supply would go down and the value would go up. You would be reducing inflation. Go for it!
Thereby you'd also be making the currency you've just bought more valuable. That's like some sort of financial perpetual motion machine!
And to the GP: people nowadays are humorless dicks and will probably sue you for a billion US dollars, at which point you'd be better off moving to Zimbabwe. Still, $Zim is easy to get on Ebay. That banknote will be worth less than a $USD 5 by the time the database is update with this post, so the ebay operation's ROI must be pretty good.
Unfortunately the Zim government decided to drop 10 zeroes from its currency, somewhat crippling their chances of beating the German and Hungarian records of hyperinflation.
> I'd definitely pay more than 35 cents for a candy bar whose ingredients totalled 110% of its contents, just to find out how that was possible.
Actually, just today while shopping I noticed a sausage with the following label (paraphrasing as I'm too lazy to go downstairs to check): "100 kg of this product contains 160 kg of pork, 20 kg of beef, spices,...".
In addition to some sort of reverse synergy magick of the ingredients, they also for some reason decided to show that for a 100 kg, instead of 100g or standard portion size as it is usually done with foods. Not that it matters due to the wonders of the metric system, but who the fuck eats 100 kg of sausage? The record consumption of various meats seem to be around 1.5 - 3kg.
I'm surprised it took this long for someone to admit this. Most likely it's just some form of self-selection bias, but damn it makes slashdot look like the healthiest community on the net.
The only sports I ever enjoyed are ones you might find in a pub, mainly pool and darts (it's a sport, ok? Even the UK recognizes that). At most, an occasional game of football with my high school friends, although even that gets old soon. But fuck me with a spiked running shoe if I have to run further than the line of sight, or risk killing myself while pedaling the horrid invention that is the bicycle. The gym, of course, ranks somewhere below the dentist's office in terms of places I'd like to be.
Maybe I should buy myself a 70s Alfa Romeo. Certainly the motivation to push it to a garage as quickly as possible will be there.
Since this is a story about Micro$oft, everyone's just being stupid in the regular "hurr down with windoze!" fashion, but Sync does exactly that -- let you plug in your Sansa (I think it's supported along with most mass storage DAPs) into the car and queue up music through the menu system or voice commands. No sacrifice on the Steve Job's altar necessary.
I also like the feature as it saves me from having to constantly adjust the volume based on current driving conditions (look, a safety benefit!). What is for me acceptable volume while cruising around town is impossible to hear while flying down the highway or even just having A/C on full. My Opel Omega B and dad's Nissan Primera (P12?) seem to both have the ability to change the system's sensitivity with the stock audio system.
It's still fugly, I don't see how your photo proves otherwise. Just because hollywood douchebags are all over it doesn't mean it's not ugly. It's only when one adds some sexy models to spice things up that looking at the Prius becomes bearable, like so. Much better.
Yeah, but at least they're becoming way more usable. The small low-res screen, shitty keyboard, low storage and relatively poor battery life made sure I wasn't getting myself the EEE 4G/700. Now Dell is coming up with the $299 "E" laptop which appears to be what the EEE should've been all along, and I'm rather interested.
No matter how many unpaid overtime hours the Chinese kids work, there still is a certain price floor at the current technological level. I'd be quite satisfied if they just kept improving the product at the current price range until it's feasible to go lower without producing something completely useless.
>> (Although to kill a russian woman might well take the amount of force required to kill a Western man, da?)
>That would have been so much more amusing if you had made it into a "In Soviet Russia..." joke. >I can not in good conscious mod you up;) That and I've already commented in this article;)
You mean like so?
In California, it takes 100 Newtons to kill a man. In Soviet Russia, a woman uses 100 Newtons to kill you!
> Are you near death, obsessed with productivity or under heavy obligations?
No, I'm just concerned for the environment as well as my time, so I fly wherever I can.
Distance between LHR and JFK is 5555 km. This is about 37.5% of a 747's range, so assuming it would need a similar percentage of its maximum fuel, this means it will use 91252 liters of fuel. At about 450 passengers, this is 202.8 liters/passenger. Jet fuel density is about 0.8 kg/L.
A Freedom class ship uses about 12800 kg of fuel per hour. Traveling for six days, this is 1843200 kg, or 421.8 kg/passenger for maximum capacity.
These calculations are somewhat rough as those are different types of fuel and one could argue that releasing the pollution high in the atmoshpere is worse, but overall, sailing won't achieve anything, except perhaps wasting everyone's time.
Yeah, not to mention that PDF supports several compression formats for images including zip, jpeg, and jpeg2000 at various quality levels if storage is such a concern. Just playing around with the image from the wiki article, file sizes range from 4795kb for uncompressed, to 285kb for maximum quality (but lossy) jpeg2k. A jpeg compressed tiff is about 660kb.
Now, I've never had to deal with aperture cards IRL, so I'm not sure about the following: a lot of space seems to be wasted to preserve a few pieces of the human readable printed data on the cards. If this is unimportant, just thresholding the whole image except for the embedded film can provide huge savings and/or leave more bits for the significant parts.
PS. The default Windows picture viewer doesn't support jpeg and zip compressed tiffs.
Anyway, it's not surprising that it "phones home", considering that it's supposed to be online/sharing oriented, and needs to contect the servers. As far as SecuROM, the version I got from TPB works fine, although that doesn't mean SecuROM didn't install silently.
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This might be the first time ever that I feel like punching several posters from one story in the face until they relax a little. Yeah Verizon should've allowed the name, but everyone's making it sound like it's a huge fucking tragedy. Has anyone compared this to the holocaust yet?
People are denied the use of their real names in email addresses all the time. If I were to try to register an email with any of the major providers, I would be denied the use of my real first and last names because they use the cyrillic alphabet. I could use some latin approximation which would sound similar enough or just use something else, but that would be an insult to my ancestors who were massacred by the Turks and fought bravely against the Germans. Still, I get over myself and use a latin approximation, but then it turns out that the address is already in use! Those assholes, what am I going to do now!?! I have dishonored my family by not using an email address with my full real names and now I will have to die. So long.
That was a joke, but we shall see who'll be laughing once the Chinese segway cavalry rolls over your defensive lines.
Thereby you'd also be making the currency you've just bought more valuable. That's like some sort of financial perpetual motion machine!
And to the GP: people nowadays are humorless dicks and will probably sue you for a billion US dollars, at which point you'd be better off moving to Zimbabwe. Still, $Zim is easy to get on Ebay. That banknote will be worth less than a $USD 5 by the time the database is update with this post, so the ebay operation's ROI must be pretty good.
Unfortunately the Zim government decided to drop 10 zeroes from its currency, somewhat crippling their chances of beating the German and Hungarian records of hyperinflation.
> I'd definitely pay more than 35 cents for a candy bar whose ingredients totalled 110% of its contents, just to find out how that was possible.
Actually, just today while shopping I noticed a sausage with the following label (paraphrasing as I'm too lazy to go downstairs to check): "100 kg of this product contains 160 kg of pork, 20 kg of beef, spices, ...".
In addition to some sort of reverse synergy magick of the ingredients, they also for some reason decided to show that for a 100 kg, instead of 100g or standard portion size as it is usually done with foods. Not that it matters due to the wonders of the metric system, but who the fuck eats 100 kg of sausage? The record consumption of various meats seem to be around 1.5 - 3kg.
I'm surprised it took this long for someone to admit this. Most likely it's just some form of self-selection bias, but damn it makes slashdot look like the healthiest community on the net.
The only sports I ever enjoyed are ones you might find in a pub, mainly pool and darts (it's a sport, ok? Even the UK recognizes that). At most, an occasional game of football with my high school friends, although even that gets old soon. But fuck me with a spiked running shoe if I have to run further than the line of sight, or risk killing myself while pedaling the horrid invention that is the bicycle. The gym, of course, ranks somewhere below the dentist's office in terms of places I'd like to be.
Maybe I should buy myself a 70s Alfa Romeo. Certainly the motivation to push it to a garage as quickly as possible will be there.
This way my left leg/foot gets more exercise when driving an automatic, otherwise a heavy clutch does the trick.
Since this is a story about Micro$oft, everyone's just being stupid in the regular "hurr down with windoze!" fashion, but Sync does exactly that -- let you plug in your Sansa (I think it's supported along with most mass storage DAPs) into the car and queue up music through the menu system or voice commands. No sacrifice on the Steve Job's altar necessary.
I also like the feature as it saves me from having to constantly adjust the volume based on current driving conditions (look, a safety benefit!). What is for me acceptable volume while cruising around town is impossible to hear while flying down the highway or even just having A/C on full. My Opel Omega B and dad's Nissan Primera (P12?) seem to both have the ability to change the system's sensitivity with the stock audio system.
It's still fugly, I don't see how your photo proves otherwise. Just because hollywood douchebags are all over it doesn't mean it's not ugly. It's only when one adds some sexy models to spice things up that looking at the Prius becomes bearable, like so. Much better.
Yeah, but at least they're becoming way more usable. The small low-res screen, shitty keyboard, low storage and relatively poor battery life made sure I wasn't getting myself the EEE 4G/700. Now Dell is coming up with the $299 "E" laptop which appears to be what the EEE should've been all along, and I'm rather interested.
No matter how many unpaid overtime hours the Chinese kids work, there still is a certain price floor at the current technological level. I'd be quite satisfied if they just kept improving the product at the current price range until it's feasible to go lower without producing something completely useless.
Nope, they assfuck the taxpayers.
Well it's that, or they just lawyer up.
And what, exactly, did all that accomplish?
> are still left in the 70's building 5 litre v8 guzzlers with solid rear axles
And so is Mercedes. Well not solid axles or leaf springs, but they certainly do put 6.2 litre V8 engines in many of their cars.
Anyway, this article is pretty much pointless, as at best MB will just make all cars E85 compatible or something.
Your suggestion is laughable. There is only one acceptable answer.
Well maybe they'll actually get him on fraud charges, as he wouldn't be able to prove his vote to the potential buyer.
>> (Although to kill a russian woman might well take the amount of force required to kill a Western man, da?)
>That would have been so much more amusing if you had made it into a "In Soviet Russia..." joke. ;) That and I've already commented in this article ;)
>I can not in good conscious mod you up
You mean like so?
In California, it takes 100 Newtons to kill a man. In Soviet Russia, a woman uses 100 Newtons to kill you!
Erm yeah...
What's your problem with Czech commercial TV, that there are stories about cute animals at the end of each news segment?
> Are you near death, obsessed with productivity or under heavy obligations?
No, I'm just concerned for the environment as well as my time, so I fly wherever I can.
Distance between LHR and JFK is 5555 km. This is about 37.5% of a 747's range, so assuming it would need a similar percentage of its maximum fuel, this means it will use 91252 liters of fuel. At about 450 passengers, this is 202.8 liters/passenger. Jet fuel density is about 0.8 kg/L.
A Freedom class ship uses about 12800 kg of fuel per hour. Traveling for six days, this is 1843200 kg, or 421.8 kg/passenger for maximum capacity.
These calculations are somewhat rough as those are different types of fuel and one could argue that releasing the pollution high in the atmoshpere is worse, but overall, sailing won't achieve anything, except perhaps wasting everyone's time.
Electricity costs have not tripled unless that happend in the last year or so, which in fact it did not.
Yeah, not to mention that PDF supports several compression formats for images including zip, jpeg, and jpeg2000 at various quality levels if storage is such a concern. Just playing around with the image from the wiki article, file sizes range from 4795kb for uncompressed, to 285kb for maximum quality (but lossy) jpeg2k. A jpeg compressed tiff is about 660kb.
Now, I've never had to deal with aperture cards IRL, so I'm not sure about the following: a lot of space seems to be wasted to preserve a few pieces of the human readable printed data on the cards. If this is unimportant, just thresholding the whole image except for the embedded film can provide huge savings and/or leave more bits for the significant parts.
PS. The default Windows picture viewer doesn't support jpeg and zip compressed tiffs.
So maybe swimming in raw sewage isn't so good for you after all. There goes my plan to live forever.
> Hopefully they are right about it.
Of course they're right about it, they have solid photographic evidence.
Of course, the same can be done in Opera. One could even have the tabs on the same row as the menu/address bar for ultimate real estate economy!
Browser flamewars are more awesome than the awesome bar.
That doesn't seem to be working that well.
Anyway, it's not surprising that it "phones home", considering that it's supposed to be online/sharing oriented, and needs to contect the servers. As far as SecuROM, the version I got from TPB works fine, although that doesn't mean SecuROM didn't install silently.
As do most (all?) HTC phones. My s730 is charging through USB right now.